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<span id="vim"></span><h1>The Vim parser<a class="headerlink" href="#the-vim-parser" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Incompatible change<a class="headerlink" href="#incompatible-change" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Quoted from <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">:help</span> <span class="pre">script-variable</span></code> in the Vim documentation:</p>
<div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>                        <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">script</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">variable</span><span class="o">*</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">*</span>
<span class="n">In</span> <span class="n">a</span> <span class="n">Vim</span> <span class="n">script</span> <span class="n">variables</span> <span class="n">starting</span> <span class="k">with</span> <span class="s2">&quot;s:&quot;</span> <span class="n">can</span> <span class="n">be</span> <span class="n">used</span><span class="o">.</span> <span class="n">They</span>
<span class="n">cannot</span> <span class="n">be</span> <span class="n">accessed</span> <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">outside</span> <span class="n">of</span> <span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">scripts</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">thus</span> <span class="n">are</span> <span class="n">local</span> <span class="n">to</span>
<span class="n">the</span> <span class="n">script</span><span class="o">.</span>
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<p>Exuberant-ctags records the prefix <cite>s:</cite> as part of a script-local
variable’s name. However, it is omitted from function names. As
requested in issue #852 on GitHub, Universal-ctags now also includes
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